mySAP Business Intelligence
At the present time the company has external and internal are communication channels with a flood of information flooded. In this situation, the targeted collection and rigorous interpretation information for the Determination of the course and for the success of a company crucial.
MySAP Business Intelligence (mySAP BI) is here and with one hand offers SAP BW (Business Information Warehouse) an information center for the entire mySAP Business Suite, and other tools and methods are from the analytical applications (Business Analytics) of each components of the Business Suite, such as for example mySAP CRM or mySAP financials and strategic management (SEM) provided that This information center use to decision-making tools for the management of To win business. The resulting solutions are the Management of mySAP Enterprise Portal, the portal presented.
MySAP BI is the first integrated, Internet-enabled solution to control companies' performance on the basis of the operational businessElements of analytical approaches with systems theory (the principle the feedback) combined.
The following functions are available:
Data Warehousing
The core of mySAP BI is the data warehousing in BI.
This information collection 3 is not limited to DIP, but is an automated data retrieval from the operational processes all components of the Business Suite (R / 3, CRM, APO, SRM, SCM) and from And external systems via the Internet.
The data are from a variety of internal and external sources extracted at regular intervals (pull mechanism). These are implanted in the operating systems known as extractors, the data collect and deliver these to the SAP BW.
The collected data will be merged by the so-called staging Engine and after caching the Operational Data Store (ODS), structured in specific relational database tables, the so-called InfoCubes stored. These are from the perspective of optimal performance based on star schema. The structure and update rules for the InfoCube are in a Metadata repository stored, managed by the Meta Data Manager is.
The requirements for analyzing the data to an OLAP Processor (Online analytical processing) made the queries of the InfoCube running. The actual data accesses performed by the Data Manager.
Analysis
The data warehouse provides the data for analytical applications (Business Analytics), and the strategic planning and management (SEM) available: The analytical applications to control and optimize the business In the business scenarios of the individual divisions as well division boundaries.
They measure pre-defined metrics to monitor the critical success factors, warn the user in case of deviations alert (monitoring) and provide him the opportunity to take corrective action or do so even after given statement.
Here are various mathematical and heuristic, multivariate methods used. A frequently quoted example is the so-called data mining that tries to ferret out hidden associations in very large amounts of data and evaluate.
The strategic planning and management (SEM) uses proven business Methods such as balanced scorecards, portfolio analysis, and benchmarking and scenario techniques with graphical modeling to support the management decisions. The manager sits in front of his cockpit and communicates interactively with the system.
Representation
Available for the preparation and presentation of data different, flexible Tools such as for example geographic information systems (GIS) and information cockpits available. Users can type representations in varying degree of compaction on three alternative reporting tools retrieve:
Using a web browser (web reporting)
With Microsoft Excel (Business Explorer - Bex)
About the Enterprise Portal SAP Enterprise Portal
Portal Integration
About this portal integration, the employees of the entity and the business world over the Internet to the information and Access decision support of mySAP BI. Within the portal can parallel interactive graphics, web applications, early warning and information cockpit be displayed and extensive role - Search functions are used.
Knowledge Management
As a further feature provides the user with a mySAP BI Knowledge Management available, with all the information a company be managed. Inform decision-makers can e.g. Reports with comments, Approval processes are automated in the team and the decision making process companies to participate. Different users can cross-company Sharing resources and content (Collaboration).
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